The Chick Webb Memorial Recreation Center, located in East Baltimore, is set for a $20 million redevelopment. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved a loan guarantee of ...

Groundbreaking began Wednesday on improvements to the Chick Webb Recreational Center in east Baltimore. It's a $21 million project expected to give the historic building a 21st century makeover. The ...

(The Root) — Celebrating the world of swing, The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America revisits the music’s heyday through the life and legacy of Chick Webb, the house-band leader ...

Thanks to Stephanie Stein Crease’s new biography of virtuoso drummer Chick Webb, the Baltimore-born band leader and popular music legend, we now have a detailed and nuanced picture of his amazing life ...

The King of Swing in the 1930s wasn't Benny Goodman or Count Basie. It was Chick Webb. The drummer fielded, managed and drove one of the best dance bands in the country and held court at New York's ...

"This is it," Webb said of Fitzgerald. "I have a real singer now. That's what the public wants." Ella Fitzgerald's Early Years Collected In A Chick Webb Box Set Drummer Chick Webb's 1930s orchestra ...

A job fair hosted by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works drew hundreds to the Chick Webb Recreation Center in the Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood Saturday. Department of Public Works Chief ...